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Ocean and the Senses
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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As humans migrate toward the coastal zone in the next 30 to 50 years, less seaside space will be available for us to enjoy, to entice our senses, a...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: May 15, 2018
  • Length: 05:09
  • Purchases: 1
Unstable ice leads to a deadly winter
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: New York State Police / Snowmobile , Credit: New York State Police
More than 30 snowmobilers and fishermen have died after breaking through lake ice in the northeast and Great Lakes region this winter. The toll wou...

Bought by WBFO, WCPN, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WDET Detroit Public Radio, North Country Public Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 10, 2017
  • Length: 03:24
  • Purchases: 6
N.Y. snowmobilers add to toll in deadly winter
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: A sign on Conesus Lake directs sportsmen to an access point., Credit: Veronica Volk
In part two of a series on fatalities associated with thin ice this winter, we hear the story of two men who disappeared one night after taking a l...

Bought by WCPN, WRVO Public Media, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WCMU Michigan, and WBFO


  • Added: Mar 10, 2017
  • Length: 03:29
  • Purchases: 5
At the Fishhouses (A Holiday Episode)
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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At each year's end, World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill reads "At The Fishhouses" by Elizabeth Bishop. This perennial favorite poem was chosen not o...

  • Added: Dec 27, 2016
  • Length: 04:51
Struck By Lightning
From: Outside Magazine
Series: Outside Podcast
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Science doesn't understand lightning very well—or how a strike affects the human body. Survivors sometimes claim to have super-senses, or special p...

Bought by KREV-LP, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUER, KPIK-LP, Marfa Public Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 14, 2016
  • Length: 41:33
  • Purchases: 9
radioBANG Episode 1529
From: Chuck Woodford
Series: radioBANG
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NASA’s Technology Transfer Program advances earthbound bioscience

  • Added: Nov 04, 2015
  • Length: 01:56
The Future of Coal
From: The Allegheny Front: Reporting on the Environment
Caption: A coal terminal in Eastern Kentucky., Credit: Photo: Reid Frazier
Can the Appalachian Mountains recover from centuries of mining? What will happen to the thousands of coal miners projected to lose their jobs in th...

Bought by Wyoming Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 28, 2015
  • Length: 51:59
  • Purchases: 1
In Kentucky, a Prairie Made by Coal
From: Reid Frazier
Caption: Up to a million acres of strip-mined land have been de-forested., Credit: Photo: Reid Frazier
More than a million acres of strip-mined land—an area the size of Rhode Island—are now deforested in Appalachia.

Bought by WMMT, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 24, 2015
  • Length: 06:18
  • Purchases: 3
The Chemical Ocean
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: Remember the toxic red sludge chemical disaster, 2010, in Hungary? This photo shows a reservoir containing red mud of an alumina factory near Ajka, Hungary, 2006., Credit: EPA | Sandor H. Szabo
Toxic chemicals released into watersheds and waterways remain a persistent problem despite the sounding of alarms, which for decades have railed ag...

  • Added: Dec 15, 2014
  • Length: 05:27
The Nature of Elephants
From: Paul Messing
Series: Paul Messing's Audio Producer's Grab Bag
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Two stories about elephants, one from Carol Buckley, co-founder of the Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee, and one from author Susan Chernak McElroy (...

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Oct 19, 2014
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Beyond Hope
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will have us look at what might lie beyond hope, how we might apply our optimism to meet and...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2014
  • Length: 05:28
Xtra Tuf #6.75: Report From Uyak Bay
From: Erin Yanke
Caption: Bear from Uyak Bay, Credit: Alec Dunn
Moe Bowstern and Erin Yanke present a bear story from 1997 Alaska, with updates from the participants and observers, and from Alaska Fish and Game.

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Apr 10, 2014
  • Length: 01:00:18
  • Purchases: 1
Food Sleuth Radio Joseph Hibbeln Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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With the industrialization of agriculture, our diets have become out of balance with an abundance of omega-6 fatty acids and a deficiency in omega-...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2013
  • Length: 28:00
U.S. Invasion Ten Years Later: Iraqi Refugee Reminds Us He's Seen War Since the 80s, and He Tells of His Health Now
From: Ashley Murray
Caption: Hussein Aladdin and Iman Ali arrived in the US in 2010 as refugees. Aladdin has been living with lung cancer since 2009 but is unsure if it was caused by the environmental degradation from the recent wars in his home country., Credit: Photo: Ashley Murray
Hussein Aladdin is an Iraqi refugee who settled in Pittsburgh with his wife Iman Ali and their three sons. He is now managing lung cancer and memor...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2013
  • Length: 04:18
Feature Report - Plotting Section 5 of I-69
From: WFHB
Series: Daily Local News
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The development of Interstate 69 through Indiana is divided into six sections from the Indiana/Kentucky boarder up to Indianapolis. This week, the ...

  • Added: Apr 30, 2012
  • Length: 12:13
Martha Washington (Last Passenger Pigeon), September 1, 1914
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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Not THAT Martha Washington, but a 29-year-old Passenger Pigeon who spent her entire life in captivity at the Cincinnati Zoo. Of billions of birds f...

  • Added: Apr 19, 2011
  • Length: 03:00
Copenhagen: America & Africa in Climate Decline
From: Alex Smith
Series: Radio Ecoshock Show
Caption: Paul Kingsnorth
The Copenhagen mess. Guest Paul Kingsnorth says civilization IS climate change. Nobody wants to change Western comforts. Opens with a digest of alt...

Bought by KSFR


  • Added: Dec 19, 2009
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1
Howland Cultural Center - Geothermal System
From: Clearwater Moment
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The Howland Cultural Center is a beautiful performance space, gallery, and host to cultural events in the Hudson Valley. The historic building rec...

  • Added: Mar 09, 2009
  • Length: 01:46
Erica Fernandez vs. BHP Billiton Petroleum
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Erica Fernandez, environmental activist who helped prevent a liquefied natural gas plant from being built near her hometown of Oxnard, Califonia., Credit: www.nbconference.org
We hear from 18-year-old Erica Fernandez. Winner of the 2007 Brower Youth Award, this fierce young woman took on the world’s largest mining compan...

  • Added: Feb 13, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
Elephants - 6 Minutes of Fact and Story
From: Paul Messing
Series: For Kindred Spirits (and separate elements)
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Basic facts and about elephants from Carol Buckley, founder of The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee, plus a personal elephant story from NY Times be...

  • Added: Dec 03, 2008
  • Length: 07:06
WWOZ Street Talk- Badass Emma and the Levee Hearing
From: David Weinberg
Series: WWOZ- Street Talk
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A conversation with badass Emma and a look at the work of the NRC's report on the Army corps levees.

Bought by NPR Station Showcase with PRX


  • Added: Dec 18, 2007
  • Length: 05:58
  • Purchases: 1
Sanctuaries for the Great Cetaceans Debated
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: June 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Save the Whales! For years, that was the clarion call of environmentalists everywhere. So how are the great cetaceans doing?

  • Added: May 24, 2007
  • Length: 01:32
In the eye of Katrina
From: David Duncan
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Sara Duncan talks about being in the eye of a hurricane

  • Added: Aug 30, 2005
  • Length: :00